Jenna DePasquale tue63816@temple.edu
Chris Baltz bitbanocth@gmail.com
Ray Gerhart tue54368@temple.edu
Alex Monsell alexandermonsell@gmail.com

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Some pretty legit data sets:
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/tables/dt11_395.asp
http://nces.ed.gov/quicktables/result.asp?q=education%20over%20time&spell=1&site=nces&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&client=quicktables&entqr=3&requiredfields=keywords%3Aquicktable&access=p&h=&ip=192.168.132.60&oe=UTF-8&getfields=qttitle.qtstatcat.qtsource.qtyear&output=xml_no_dtd&filter=0


Here's a pretty good breakdown of how social mobility has declined in the past few decades:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20050515_CLASS_GRAPHIC/index_03.html - Jenna

Not sure if this well end up helping, but it's something in the mean time:
http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/faces/study/StudyPage.xhtml?globalId=hdl:1902.2/8682&studyListingIndex=4_2a77e4d89bf57fd15652e171a781 - Jenna

its long but we can definately use a lot thats in there:

http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/kf/hertz_mobility_analysis.pdf
-Alex

http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/why/evidence/social-mobility - Ray

Not sure how useful this is i googled social mobility and this is what came up, seems like a simple 1st step.
(i also think we should write our names with what we post for organizational purposes)

some basic descriptive statistics:
college enrollment by decade (in thousands):

1960s:
Avg:2,241
S:453

1970s:
Avg:3,039
S:141

1980s:
Avg:2,844
S:228

1990s:
Avg:2,563
S:217

2000s:
Avg:2,794
S:174

Not sure how we can work this in, I'm pretty sure we can all agree more education leads to more chances for mobility, mostly did this so that I could get used to the programs though.
-Alex

the summary of the general survey:

caseid tvhours civic bored

1972 1 : 1 Min. : 0.00 Min. :1.00 Min. :1.00

1972 10 : 1 1st Qu.: 2.00 1st Qu.:1.00 1st Qu.:2.00

1972 100: 1 Median : 2.00 Median :2.00 Median :2.00

1972 101: 1 Mean : 2.96 Mean :2.06 Mean :2.28

1972 102: 1 3rd Qu.: 4.00 3rd Qu.:3.00 3rd Qu.:3.00

1972 103: 1 Max. :24.00 Max. :4.00 Max. :3.00

(Other) :48067 NA's :19550 NA's :46234 NA's :45997

impwork imppol imprelax prowar

Min. :1.00 Min. :1.00 Min. :1.00 Min. :1

1st Qu.:5.00 1st Qu.:3.00 1st Qu.:5.00 1st Qu.:2

Median :6.00 Median :4.00 Median :6.00 Median :2

Mean :5.77 Mean :4.07 Mean :5.55 Mean :2

3rd Qu.:7.00 3rd Qu.:5.00 3rd Qu.:7.00 3rd Qu.:2

Max. :7.00 Max. :7.00 Max. :7.00 Max. :2

NA's :46236 NA's :46237 NA's :46239 NA's :46569

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Min. :1.0 Min. :1.00 Min. :1.00 Min. :1.00

1st Qu.:2.0 1st Qu.:5.00 1st Qu.:6.00 1st Qu.:3.00

Median :2.0 Median :6.00 Median :7.00 Median :4.00

Mean :1.9 Mean :5.48 Mean :6.35 Mean :3.35

3rd Qu.:2.0 3rd Qu.:7.00 3rd Qu.:7.00 3rd Qu.:4.00

Max. :2.0 Max. :7.00 Max. :7.00 Max. :4.00

NA's :46569 NA's :47159 NA's :47158 NA's :47183

equal3 equal4 educ sei

Min. :1.00 Min. :1.00 Min. : 0.00 Min. :17.10

1st Qu.:2.00 1st Qu.:2.00 1st Qu.:12.00 1st Qu.:32.40

Median :3.00 Median :2.00 Median :12.00 Median :39.00

Mean :2.63 Mean :2.35 Mean :12.64 Mean :48.39

3rd Qu.:3.00 3rd Qu.:3.00 3rd Qu.:15.00 3rd Qu.:63.50

Max. :4.00 Max. :4.00 Max. :20.00 Max. :97.20

NA's :46649 NA's :46639 NA's :144 NA's :23360

secdocs satfin class year

Min. :1.00 Min. :1.000 Min. :1.000 Min. :1972

1st Qu.:2.00 1st Qu.:1.000 1st Qu.:2.000 1st Qu.:1980

Median :2.00 Median :2.000 Median :2.000 Median :1989

Mean :2.54 Mean :1.964 Mean :2.469 Mean :1989

3rd Qu.:3.00 3rd Qu.:3.000 3rd Qu.:3.000 3rd Qu.:1998

Max. :5.00 Max. :3.000 Max. :5.000 Max. :2006

NA's :44081 NA's :3584 NA's :2365 NA's :1

-Alex

more advanced data on educational findings:

Year TotalHS MaleHS FemaleHS WhiteHS

Min. :1972 Min. :2276 Min. :1120 Min. :1136 Min. :1719

1st Qu.:1981 1st Qu.:2662 1st Qu.:1277 1st Qu.:1362 1st Qu.:1862

Median :1990 Median :2791 Median :1372 Median :1424 Median :1996

Mean :1990 Mean :2810 Mean :1367 Mean :1442 Mean :2123

3rd Qu.:2000 3rd Qu.:3045 3rd Qu.:1475 3rd Qu.:1571 3rd Qu.:2486

Max. :2009 Max. :3185 Max. :1640 Max. :1685 Max. :2701

BlackHS HispanicHS TotalCollegePct MaleCollegePct

Min. :290.0 Min. :101.0 Min. :47.00 Min. :47.00

1st Qu.:325.0 1st Qu.:147.5 1st Qu.:51.50 1st Qu.:53.00

Median :349.0 Median :178.5 Median :61.00 Median :58.50

Mean :357.1 Mean :225.0 Mean :58.92 Mean :57.74

3rd Qu.:385.5 3rd Qu.:310.5 3rd Qu.:64.75 3rd Qu.:61.00

Max. :436.0 Max. :459.0 Max. :70.00 Max. :67.00

FemaleCollegePct WhiteCollegePct BlackCollegePct HispanicCollegePct

Min. :43.00 Min. :47.00 Min. :33.0 Min. :34.00

1st Qu.:52.00 1st Qu.:53.50 1st Qu.:44.0 1st Qu.:47.00

Median :62.00 Median :63.00 Median :50.5 Median :53.00

Mean :59.82 Mean :60.79 Mean :50.0 Mean :52.26

3rd Qu.:67.00 3rd Qu.:66.75 3rd Qu.:56.0 3rd Qu.:57.00

Max. :74.00 Max. :73.00 Max. :70.0 Max. :66.00
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ttest on gender and working class sentiments (with basic script):

  • nes<-read.csv("anes2008.csv")

  • fix(nes)

  • ttest<- t.test(nes$workclass ~ nes$gender)

  • ttest
Welch Two Sample t-test
data: nes$workclass by nes$gender

t = -3.3991, df = 1940.847, p-value = 0.0006898

alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0

95 percent confidence interval:

-3.902042 -1.046719

sample estimates:

mean in group 1. Male respondent selected

82.56778

mean in group 2. Female respondent selected

85.04216
-Alex